before 2000 by applying the relevant practice directions and other guidance available. if the minimum term to be served would have been shorter before december 2002 that i must apply that shorter term. i start therefore by considering the appropriate term you must serve by reference to scheduled 2i appropriate term you must serve by reference to scheduled 21 of the sentencing act. in this context i make the following findings which i am sure, having the trialjudge, you lured nikki allan away by telling her lies. 0nly lured nikki allan away by telling her lies. only you know what you said to her, to cause her to leave the gully with you shortly before 10pm in 1992 to leave with you. somehow you tricked her into going with you to the opposite direction to her home and on a cold and dark night. you do not use force. a witness saw you both on your way to the old exchange building, you leading the way and nikki allan skipping along after you, the impression of that witness was
nikki was killed. you are now 55 and when you committed this murder you were 23. you appear before the court on 22 occasions for 45 offences and the majority of your offending has been acquisitive, but your sexual attraction to seven year old nikki allan was not an isolated incident. in october 1986 allan was not an isolated incident. in 0ctober1986 you had been found to have breached the police who approached a group of little girls between eight and ten years old. he took hold of one goal by the arm and asked to kiss her. you told the children not to tell anyone one girl. in march 2000, eight years after your killing of nikki allan, you are convicting of an indecent assault on a female under 14 years and two girls aged nine and 12 were playing in a park, approached them and took hold of the shoulder of one of them, and you told her not to scream. you asked the others whether